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Ken’s Get Well Book

Whatever we love
Heals us

singing/dancin
Chanting/ranting
Heals us

Crying/sighing
Heals us

To mourn our losses
Heals us

To accept our limitations,
our regrets,
Heals us

Memory. Dreams
Hope and yearning
Heals us

Sharing/
daring/
caring
Heals us

Gentleness
Quiet
Truth
and kindness
Heal us

Loveliness
laughter
and anticipation
Heals us

Broccoli
Cabbage
Turnips
Heal us

Juice and roots
What’s raw and natural
and real
Heals us
Sticks and weeds
and beads
Heal us

Nasturtiums
Wild mustard
Saguaros
Heal us

God
Humanity
Clean socks
Heal us

Whatever we love
Heals us

May, 1994
for Ken Marshall